Flea Market Jesus. Arthur E. Farnsley II
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- Издательство: Ingram(2020)
- ISBN: 9781621893523
- Язык: Английский
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Americans live their lives through institutions: government, businesses, schools, clubs, and houses of worship. But many Americans are wary of the control these groups–especially government and business–exercise over their lives. <br/> Flea Market Jesus provides an up-close look at the rugged individualism of those trying hardest to separate themselves from institutions: flea market dealers. Having spent most of his life studying American religious organizations, Art Farnsley turns his attention to America's most solitary, and alienated, entrepreneurs. <br/> Farnsley describes an entire subculture of white Midwesterners–working class, middle class, and poor–gathered together in a uniquely American celebration of guns and frontier life. In this mix, the character «Cochise» voices the frustrations of flea market dealers toward business, politics, and, especially, religion. <br/> Part ethnography, part autobiography, Flea Market Jesus is a story about alienation, biblical literalism, libertarianism, and deep-seated religious belief. It is not about the Tea Party, the Occupy movement, or the Christian Right, but it shines a light on all of these by highlighting the potent combination of mistrust, resentment, and personal liberty too often kept in the shadows of public discourse among educated elites.
